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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

SA Team Trials

The MSSA has put up the following on
their facebook page:“Hot
news:

If
you play Dota 2 or CounterStrike GO, dust off your keyboards, flex
your fingers, and get ready.

The
IeSF has just advised members that Dota 2 and CounterStrike GO will
both be played at the IeSF's 2015 World Championships.

The
above is indeed good news! “

Indeed this is good
news!

CounterStrike is hugely popular in Europe and now at
last South Africa can select an official MWEB sponsored Protea team to officially take on the
best in the world.

But, just who will that team be?

The
MSSA's very fair policy of qualification is simple. Players that
finish in the top three positions (or the top twenty percent,
whichever is greater) allows a number of players to qualify for the
prestigious National Team Trials.

Added to the fact that all events held
by the MSSA during a calendar year prior to the event count for
delivering qualifiers, it means that there should be many gamers from
which to choose. That means if Trials are to be held on 1 June 2015,
then all the championships within the period 1 June 2014 to 1 June
2015 count for qualification purposes. In other words, 2014 Eastern
Cape, 2014 KwaZulu, 2014 Western Cape, 2014 Free State, 2014 Limpopo,
2015 North West, 2014 Gauteng, 2015 Mpumalanga Provincial
Championships, as well as the S A National LAN Championships, any
Regional Championships within the period and the on-line
championships would count for qualification purposes.